Atari 2600
About this work
An Atari 2600 console, joysticks and game cartridges form a small still life. The Atari Video Computer System, launched in the United States in 1977 and later known as the Atari 2600, helped bring video games into the home through interchangeable cartridges and individual controllers.
The painting isolates the console, its two joysticks and cartridges against the paper, allowing the cables, controls and wood-effect casing to be examined as parts of a familiar domestic object. These are technologies whose former novelty has become a material record of everyday habits. Their portrayal in watercolor brings the series’ generational memory into contact with the particular surfaces and small details of the equipment.